Dhruv Baldawa

It has been a while since my last digest (previously known as weekly) post. This is
mostly because I am not consuming as much information online. So, here is a list of things I liked on the internet
and I think are worth sharing.

I am just in awe of this amazing work by Mike Kelly. The series is called Airportraits and the artist has merged more than
8 hours of air traffic at various airports in a single picture. You can also check this gallery out.

I enjoyed watching this pretty dated YouTube video featuring Warren Buffett and Bill Gates about success. I just stumbled upon this video and I have never seen any of Buffet's videos or read his work before, I enjoyed clarity in his thoughts as well as his simple way of explaining fairly complex ideas.

Few interesting discussions on Reddit, one about Why are we trying to colonize Mars. One takeaway for me from this discussion was how you don't often realize that such ambitious targets increase the rate of innovation, while solving difficult problems like these we find better solutions for our current problems. As from one of the comments:

"As Neal deGrasse Tyson said, for every dollar invested in NASA, there is a $14 economic return just from the innovation that comes out of solving problems. Pyrex bakeware came out of trying to develop rocket noses, WD-40 was the 40th attempt at making a compound that would Displace Water, that's Water Displacement attempt #40, the internet as a whole came out of a scientists who wanted a better way of linking scientific papers to the documents they cite in their bibliographies."